UPDATE: 18-year-old refuses to share a room with 1, 2, and 4-year-old cousins over Fourth of July weekend: 'I packed up my stuff [and] left'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jul 4, 2025 2:00 PM EDT

Annual family gatherings are always headache-inducing endeavors. This is especially true when it's your whole extended family staying together under one roof and there are multiple humans under the age of five. At a certain point, the cons outweigh the pros, and it's just not worth it to try and make that work. It's already a hassle to travel with one young child out of town and to ensure that they are properly taken care of without too many disturbances. What about when you have three or four kids around the same age?

The answer is simple: Chaos. In this instance, we have an extended family that just had to have a whole get-together over the holiday weekend. However, due to limited room in the house, the 18-year-old of the family was expected to share a room with her cousins. Oh, and not just any cousins, but her 1, 2, and 4-year-old cousins. Talk about a nightmare!

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  • Thankfully, the author was able to put her foot down and insist upon either sleeping on the couch or leaving. Of course, the entitled parents of those three kids came up with all sorts of excuses as to why it made sense for the 18-year-old to assume responsibility for them for the weekend, but the real reason was clear. They just did not want to take care of them, so they dumped their kids onto her without asking!

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    So I F(18) was recently invited up to my aunt and uncle's (I'll call them aunt and uncle B) ranch house for the 4th of July, and told I could bring a friend. Now, this
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    aunt and uncle have a pretty big house. Their ranch house has four bedrooms with queen beds, the master bedroom, and the "kids room" which is a massive room with about ~6 beds (some
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    bunked), and a loft. They've got a lot of land around the house too, so I was excited to get some time to goof off and run around with my friend (also F18). I know that
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    other cousins are going to be there, and assume that my aunt B and uncle B thought beds through and everything like that.
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    The other people invited up to the house were Aunt G and Uncle G and their son M16 who I'll call F, my Uncle P, and my Aunt and Uncle H.
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    H's are baby cannons. They have four kids under the age of 5, none of whom sleep through the night (I've been to their house before, it's horrible).
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    Anyway, my friend and I get up to the house and learn that WE are expected to share the big bunk room with the kids under five,
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    while their parents get their own room. Uncle P, cousin F, and Aunt and Uncle G, are also in their own rooms (G's shared one).
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    I was upset. But, wanting to stay up there, I said okay, my friend and I can sleep on the couch. Cue a MASSIVE explosion.
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    The baby cannons are p ed that I don't want to sleep in the same room as their children. Their kids are horrible at night,
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    and someone needs to watch them, so it should be me and my friend because I got to invite a friend. I said that if they wanted someone to, cousin F could, but
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    cousin F apparently needed his sleep because he's a "growing boy" and he "doesn't know how to take care of kids".
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    None of the other people in the house wanted to get involved. The aunt and uncle who own the house didn't care much and just told us to figure it out. So I ignore the baby cannons and set up on the couch with my friend.
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    Cue the baby cannons mother. She throws all of our stuff off of the couches and tells me and my friend that we HAVE to sleep with her kids or we can't stay. At this
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    point, I'm mortified by her behavior because I have a friend. My friend is embarrassed and doesn't know what to do.
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    So I tell them I'm leaving. Cue more screaming. I drove up my father's boat, if I leave, there's nobody with a truck to drive the boat around, the world is ending.
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    I say that either my friend and I are sleeping on the couch, without the small children, or we're leaving.
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    Well, baby cannons weren't okay with that. So, I packed up my stuff, reattached the trailer for the boat, and left.
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    Now I'm getting texts from relatives that I was r de and could have handled it better, and that the baby cannons need a break from their kids and I'm young so I can be a nice family member and deal with it for them. AITA here?
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    UPDATE 7/1; My father has banned the baby cannon from ever going on the boat again. Aunt B is getting involved and is considering asking the baby cannon family to leave for the weekend and to not come back
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    until they can be more considerate of relatives. Uncle B is offering to pay for me and my friend to go on a backpacking trip (my friend and I go a lot), and says that he feels bad for how the baby cannons acted.
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    MotherOfMoggies. NTA. They should be sharing the room with their own children. They shouldn't be expecting you and your friend (who is presumably a stranger to them) to do it.
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    Glittering Patience ⚫ NTA You Aunt and Uncle B invited you, they should have sorted out the room assignments, not left it to the baby cannons. Apparently they only invited you to get access to the boat.
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    She throws all of our stuff off of the couches and tells me and my friend that we HAVE to sleep with her kids or we can't stay. And someone is seriously calling you ride? The hosts didn't step up so you left. What do your parents say?
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    [deleted] ⚫ NTA - they made gendered assumptions about your ability/interest in children and basically brought you as hired help. You disabused them of their mistaken beliefs.
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